Argentina: a camp in Buenos Aires to demand the release of Milagro Sala

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People have started to set up a camp in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest against the imprisonment of Milagro Sala on July 6, 2021. © Théo Conscience / RFI

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Hundreds of people have pitched their tents in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires.

A giant encampment to demand the release of Milagro Sala.

It has been exactly 2,000 days, more than five years, that this controversial social leader has been detained in her province of Jujuy.

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With our correspondent in Argentina,

Théo Conscience

In the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, the wind waves hundreds of tents and wiphala, these multicolored flags emblems of the Andean peoples.

Analia Iraola is one of the thousands of people who have come to demand the release of the

indigenous social leader Milagro Sala

: “ 

Milagro is a political prisoner of the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales.

She gave dignity to her people, she built

8,000 homes, schools, cooperatives, and the neoliberal right has never forgiven her.

 "

Prosecuted in numerous cases, Milagro Sala was sentenced in 2019 to 13 years in prison for extortion and fraud in the public administration as the leader of the powerful social organization Tupac Amaru.

No intervention by Alberto Fernandez

For Nélida Rojas, referent of this organization, Milagro Sala pays for showing the shortcomings of local political power in Jujuy: “ 

Milagro has raised awareness.

Beyond the thousands of homes, it has strengthened the rights of companions.

This is why she is being held

 ”

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez considers as Amnesty International that Milagro Sala is being arbitrarily detained.

However, he refuses to speak of a "

 political prisoner

" or to intervene in the judicial process in the province of Jujuy.

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